"Growing Pains"

Some days all you can do is breathe.

It hurts when you do everything you possibly can to help some one you care about—and despite everything they walk away with a chunk of your heart, leaving a bleeding hole.

God cries with you.

No matter what, we all have our free agency and he will never take that away even though he shares the pain, and "growing pains" can hurt a lot.

Tomorrow is a new day…

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.

Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it;

Trusting that he will make all things right if I surrender to his will;

That I may be reasonably happy in this life,

And supremely happy with Him forever, in the next.

-Reinhold Niebuhr